JUNEAU - Wisconsin's top law-enforcement officer, Attorney General Peggy Lautenschlager, was arrested for drunken driving early Tuesday morning after she ran her state-owned car into the ditch on Highway 151 in Dodge County.

Lautenschlager, who refused to speak to reporters, acknowledged in a written statement that she was cited for drunken driving after she "fell asleep" while behind the wheel. The attorney general was not hurt, but the car received minor damage from hitting a snowbank just north of Columbus.

In a preliminary breath test given at the scene, Lautenschlager's blood-alcohol level registered 0.12 percent, or 50 percent above the 0.08 legal limit, according to a report from the Dodge County Sheriff's Department. However, Lautenschlager refused a blood test.

The Democratic attorney general was handcuffed and placed in asheriff's squad car. She was released to the custody of her husband, William Rippl, a Neenah police officer, who came from their home in Fond du Lac to pick her up shortly after 1 a.m.

Well, I'm sure if it were a bunch of Tea Partiers, we would really understand the core meaning of ammo strewn all over the place. See, if some Republican got shot in the face, it would be his fault because he didn't pick up the ammo those evil Tea partiers left all over the place, stuff like that.

Of course it's a plant.

It's really interesting how we are having created for us two entirely different classes, the Democrat class and the republican class...one gets treated entirely different than the other.

I had the same idea as Hagar. Somebody was out plinking, then went to the Capitol for some reason.

One time I went bird hunting with friends I left a shotshell in my pocket. Luckily this was on the ride over to the airport, so I just gave it to my buddy. I can imagine what happened if it showed up on an x-ray.

Hagar said...Or someone dumped a box into his jacket pocket not knowing that it had a hole in it.Lots of people are careless with .22 LR ammunition, though .22's are not toys.

=============.22 ammo sans being in a weapon, is flat out NOTHING as a threat to safety. Finding some though, sans weapon, is a way for The Heroes! of the TSA and law enforcement to raise a public stink about how they will investigate and protect against the menace of stray rounds ammo, and justify their being immune from staffing cuts.

"The Democratic attorney general was handcuffed and placed in asheriff's squad car. She was released to the custody of her husband, William Rippl, a Neenah police officer, who came from their home in Fond du Lac to pick her up shortly after 1 a.m."

...Well, according to the 6:00 news, protesters have broken into the capitol and are storming the building. The police chief has confirmed that police are currently donning riot gear to deal with the situation.

.22 ammo sans being in a weapon, is flat out NOTHING as a threat to safety.

Very untrue. Give me a cartridge of any caliber, a nail, and a piece of wood, maybe a small length of hollow bamboo or similar - none of them weapons - and a few moments of quiet time, and it could get real dangerous real quick.

Repeat that 50 times...

/Just something I learned from some radical leftists when I was a youngun.

I'm a Shaaaaark said....22 ammo sans being in a weapon, is flat out NOTHING as a threat to safety.

Very untrue. Give me a cartridge of any caliber, a nail, and a piece of wood, maybe a small length of hollow bamboo or similar - none of them weapons - and a few moments of quiet time, and it could get real dangerous real quick.

Repeat that 50 times...==============No, your argument is that .22 ammo is inherently dangerous because someone could construct a weapon and use it. OK, give me 1 gallon of gasoline a cylinder of compressed air, some pipes and plumbing fittings and a lighter and I can show you how to make what the Heroes! of law enforcement are calling a WMD. Or a tank you add 8 gallons of concentrated bleach, 2 of ammonia - another combo the Heroes! are saying legally meets the definition of a WMD.

Sure Shaaark, lots of things are dangerous if you construct them and other material into a weapon.

But a few loose rounds of ammo by themselves are as danngerous as finding loose change on the ground.